WORK OUTS

You work out

on your own body 

with armor

     of l'amour

only love changes for

the good 

of language

here limping on the earth

until we reach like Orion

for our own sign or Sion

on our back benches

speaking in English

and French

like strangers

breaking our heart

on river or marriage beds

with a spell of acting

on the pages,stages

as acting Hamlet or Hal

in understudy outrages

from bourgeois appearances

of forsaking the chances

     in taking parts

of the immortal.